implode

• In short, it is an honest-to-goodness, 100 per cent city thoroughfare. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3
• If no sound came out the scream would implode, rupturing my lungs. —  Incubus
• Presumably once he did the chamber would implode or in some other fashion destroy everybody still inside. —  She Is The Darkness
• His chest felt as if it would implode, which he actually wanted to happen. —  When the Wind Blows
• If they just stand aside and watch Iraq implode, they will suffer the spillover effect in terms of refugees, in terms of insurgency, in terms of a larger Sunni - Shia divide in the Middle East. —  CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2007

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